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MiMedx Announces Board Approval of Long-Range Strategic Plan

MiMedx Group, Inc. reinforced its priorities for 2019 as part of its long-range strategic plan to enhance value for all MiMedx stakeholders.

April 11, 2019
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12 min read
Biotech Bay

AcelRx Pharmaceutical’s pooled safety results for sufentanil sublingual tablets (DSUVIA) selected for presentation at 44th Annual Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Meeting

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced an abstract about the safety of DSUVIA™ has been selected, as one of the highest scoring abstracts, for a moderated presentation at the 44th Annual Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Meeting taking place from April 11-13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

April 11, 2019
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9 min read
Horizon Pharma plc Named One of the 2019 Best Workplaces in Health Care and Biopharma by FORTUNE and Great Place to Work®

Company also awarded “Best Places to Work in Chicago” by Crain’s Chicago Business

April 11, 2019
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3 min read
Business

Scanwell Health, CRIC collaborate to improve screening and monitoring for kidney disease at home

National multicenter study of 1,250 patients with chronic kidney disease

April 11, 2019
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3 min read
Business

Global Down Syndrome Foundation Honors Congressional Champions Senator Roy Blunt, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, and Ambassador CC Mullen

With a Performance by Multi-Platinum Pop Artist Andy Grammer and a Prelude Performance by The Ransom Notes at the Annual AcceptAbility Gala in DC

April 11, 2019
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2 min read
Business

FamilyTreeDNA Helps Identify Two Victims from the “Texas Killing Fields”

FamilyTreeDNA works with League City Police Investigators to break open decades old Jane and Janet Doe cases

April 11, 2019
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2 min read
Deals

CORRECTING and REPLACING Merida Capital Partners Launches $200MM Third Fund; Crosses $125MM in Assets Under Management; Announces New Toronto Office and Three Key Hires

Merida Capital Partners (Merida), a cannabis-focused private equity fund, has launched its $200MM third fund, which will focus on concentrated, high conviction investments in leading companies in the cannabis ecosystem.

April 11, 2019
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4 min read
NEW CANCER DRUG TARGETS ACCELERATE PATH TO PRECISION MEDICINE

In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers used CRISPR technology to disrupt every gene in over 300 cancer models from 30 cancer types and discover thousands of key genes essential for cancer’s survival.

April 11, 2019
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10 min read
Job Trends

Getting Closer: Finding Out Why the Immune System Attacks Itself

Biomolecular researcher Navin Varadarajan has published in Arthritis & Rheumatology journal a first-of-its-kind study - a comprehensive profile of B cells in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

April 11, 2019
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3 min read
Business

Statement from the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health on the increasing rates of youth vaping in Canada

We are seeing an alarming number of youth vaping in Canada.

April 11, 2019
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4 min read